Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Diminished Value of Human Beings in the Dependency State

Land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship are the essential
factors of economic production. Two of
these factors, labor and entrepreneurship, are human factors. Production has been defined as the mixing of
human ideas and effort with natural resources (land) to create utility – i.e.
something of value.

In a free economy, human beings are the most valuable
components of productivity. Humans bring
their effort, energy, skills, vision, creativity and ingenuity to bear in
creating those goods and services that profitably meet the needs of other human
beings. It can be safely said that, in
this world, there will always be unmet needs and, therefore, work to be
done. Thus, by introducing more human
beings into the economic equation, more work gets done and more needs are met.

However, in the modern dependency state; people are more
likely to be looked upon as liabilities than as assets. The economies of the developed Western
nations curtail production with a myriad of taxes, subsidies, regulations and
work rules.

To say that productivity is curtailed is to say that human
beings are forced out of performing productive, creative work. Because great numbers of people are prevented
from producing useful goods and services they become wards of the state. And once people become wards of the state, they
are no longer productive assets, they are now expensive liabilities.

Thus when the modern welfare state begins to consider a great
many of its constituents to be costly liabilities, it is only natural that they
will want mitigate their liabilities by reducing the absolute number of
dependents.

Therefore it is only logical that we find Western
governments subsidizing the non-production of new people / new liabilities by underwriting
contraception and abortion. And now
the latest foray is the systematic state promotion of homosexuality. Western democracies are actively promoting same
sex relationships that are as infertile and unproductive the economies that
they have ruined.

In the early 1950s millions of refugees from Communist China
flooded into the British Protectorate of Hong Kong, then a tiny fishing village. At that time the world’s thought leaders were
predicting a demographic and economic catastrophe and for this tiny city-state.
They said that it could never support
more than 1.5 million people. The rest is
history. Hong Kong became a free market,
capitalist miracle that today supports over 7 million prosperous
residents.

Ironically, while crowded little Hong Kong was thriving, its
big sister, the People’s Republic of China was floundering economically while
forcibly restricting couples to one child.
This policy led to the genocide of millions of baby girls by couples who
wanted a boy. Because of this
gender-cide China now faces a woman shortage which has encouraged a vibrant
underground sex-slave trade.

Hong Kong taught the PRC to liberalize its economy and has
unleashed a powerful engine of growth. Hopefully Hong Kong will also show China,
along with the rest of the industrial world, that people are assets to be
cherished and not liabilities to be limited.

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